2544 LEAFLETS or Parurepine Borany [Vor. VII, Arr, 114 
3 em long; midrib short hairy beneath, almost as prominent 
along the upper side; lateral nerves 4 to 5 pairs, ascending, 
only slightly curved, forked at their distal ends, equally 
prominent on the upper side, reticulations obscure; petiole 
5 to 15 mm long, short and dirty yellowish pubescent, flat- 
tened along the upper side. Inflorescence erect, 3 to 5 cm 
long; peduncle very slender and also puberulent, flower bear- 
ing toward the top or from above the middle, the flowering 
spike subtended by a pair of much reduced leaves; rachis 
angular, minutely ciliate; flower erect, bluish white, sessile 
in the axils of the bracts, either single or one fertile and 
accompanied by 1 or 2 sterile ones, opposite, decussately ar- 
ranged, the apical portion of the spike condensed, scatter- 
ing after anthesis or toward the base; bracts erect, oblong, 
foliaceous, subchartaceous, the upper ones 1 cm long, the 
lower ones 1.5 cm in length, 2 to 3 mm wide, thick at 
the clawed basal portion, appressed strigose or pseudostrigose, g 
margins perceptibly wavy or subentire, obtuse at both ends; $ 
calyx erect, cylindric, nearly 1 cm long, the basal 4 mm » 2 
united, the upper 6 mm divided into 4 laciniate teeth, mid- 
rib portion brown, the sides subhyaline, sparingly ciliate 
along the segments or pseudostrigose on the back nearly 
to the ‘base; bud corolla obovoidly elongated, the upper 
portion Ginereously pulverulent, the 5 lobes apparently oblong, 
the throat more or less hairy, with faint purplish streaks 
along the inner side; stamens included when young, only 4 
were observed; free portion of flattened filament short, ad- 
nate and finely ciliate below the middle of the corolla throat; 
anthers oblong, almost 2 mm long; ovary elongated, deeper 
brown; style thread-like, exceeding the corolla, terminated 
by an obliquely dilated stigma. 
Type specimen number 11070, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
Collected in dry humus covered ground of a steep wood- 
ed ravine along the banks of the Baracatan creek at 1500 
feet elevation. ''Dalingding" in the Bagobo dialect. 
Apparently a species of Hemigraphis. 
9  Hypoestes apoensis Elm. n. sp. i j 
Suffrutescent or a perennial herb, 1 to 2 m high; stems : 
